Facultative

What do we mean by facultative?

Of or relating to a mental faculty. adjective

Capable of occurring or not occurring; contingent. adjective

Not required or compulsory; optional. adjective

Granting permission or authority. adjective

Capable of functioning under varying environmental conditions. Used of certain organisms, such as bacteria that can live with or without oxygen. adjective

Conferring a faculty, right, or power; enabling.

Hence Conferring the power of doing or not doing; rendering optional or contingent.

Having a faculty or power, but exercising it only occasionally or incidentally, or failing to exercise it; occasional or incidental; optional or contingent. Compare obligate.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to. adjective

Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like adjective

Pertaining to a faculty or faculties. adjective

Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty adjective

Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective adjective

That grants permission or power to do something adjective

Able to grow in or outside of a host or host cell adjective

Able to exist under more than one set of conditions adjective

Not compulsory adjective

Granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something adjective

Of or relating to the mental faculties adjective

Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty

Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective

That grants permission or power to do something

Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way

(of a point) At which a given function is positive.

(fem-fak-ool-tay) a woman with sufficient power and knowledge to act with freedom and impunity. A talented, intelegent, independant, and graceful woman. A self-made woman who is capable of providing for herself everything that she needs. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to facultative:
facultative, facilitative, facultatif.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word facultative:
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Words that rhyme with facultative:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective facultative:
anaerobes, bacteria, anaerobe, parasites, organisms, ponds, anaerobic, parasite, aerobes, pond, pathogens, species, heterochromatin, reinsurance, lagoons, saprophytes, microorganisms, organism, aerobe, rods, diapause, bacilli, pathogen, bacterium, methylotrophs, autotrophs, lagoon, reabsorption, streptococci, forms, thermogenesis, aerobic, parasitism, parthenogenesis, apomicts, referendum, anaerobiosis, heterotrophs, bacillus, apomixis, mutualism, adjustment, saprophyte, myiasis, hyperopia, response, plants, thermophiles, basis, symbionts, hypermetropia, cocci, genome, autotroph, predators, expression, flora, halophytes, responses, psychrophiles, polyandry, methylotroph, rod, microbes, strains, fibroblasts, adaptation, chemolithotrophs, plant, effluent, component, photosynthesis, anaerobics, apomict, pigmentation, monogamy, psychology, planktont, fungi, associations, halophyte, sterility, breathers, feeders, fish.

Words that sound like facultative:
facultative, facultad, facilitative, fellating, isolative, affiliative, circulative, siccative, suffocative, psychoactive.